Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I must start this answer by simply stating do both – Become a W3 member and also use S-Builder Co-op.

Becoming a W3 member is a onetime fee (for shipping) for a decal to put on your vehicle window on the front, back or side. Take a photo of you standing by your vehicle with the W3 decal showing and up-lode it to TripleClicks for approval. You are now a W3 member for life.

Now using S-Builder you are investing a monthly amount of money ($22USD) a month as a standing order) into acquiring PSAs that will go on your front line. (Level one)

The price listed above is for one share of the monthly co-op advertising in which you are not guaranteed any certain amount of PSAs received. You can purchase any number of shares each month thereby increasing the amount of PSAs received.

If you do not put S-Builder on a standing order then the cost will run you $24USD per share.

Now if you are hard pressed financially and you are trying to decide between a onetime investment for a single month I would suggest to you to purchase the W3 system. This will give you free TCredits and free MRP every month which you can save up to purchase a share in S-Builder without costing you out-of-pocket cash.

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I must start this answer by simply stating do both – Become a W3 member and also use S-Builder Co-op.

Becoming a W3 member is a onetime fee (for shipping) for a decal to put on your vehicle window on the front, back or side. Take a photo of you standing by your vehicle with the W3 decal showing and up-lode it to TripleClicks for approval. You are now a W3 member for life.

Now using S-Builder you are investing a monthly amount of money ($22USD) a month
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

My friend you stated you have been in SFI for one year - and with no success.

1. If you have really been in for one year you are showing the character of success by not having quit by now.

2. You are here at Ask SC submitting a question so you can receive answers from those who have advanced before you. This to is a character of success - asking for knowledge and knowing when to ask. Learning is wealth.

3. You ask "What should I do now?" The greatest achievements are accomplished by those who are willing to be taught. If you are open enough to act on the answers that you receive then you are again showing the character of a successful marketer.

My suggestion to you would to first believe in yourself and that you have what it takes to be successful (you have proved that by staying for a year.

You need to define where you feel that you are not successful and then go to work on changing the circumstances that are holding you back.

Success is a mindset of positive thoughts, attitudes, and actions - build yourself up with positive thoughts you already have exhibited proper perseverance sor success. Follow those who have gone before you.
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My friend you stated you have been in SFI for one year - and with no success.

1. If you have really been in for one year you are showing the character of success by not having quit by now.

2. You are here at Ask SC submitting a question so you can receive answers from those who have advanced before you. This to is a character of success - asking for knowledge and knowing when to ask. Learning is wealth.

3. You ask "What should I do now?"
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Should I encourage or discourage my PSAs who want to become Team Leaders right away?

You have picked a great subject line for your question. “To be or - Not to be” I believe that every excited affiliate that sees the possibilities with SFI and TripleClicks to have a great income that can turn them financially free wants to get to the top as soon as possible.

As team leaders we must evaluate the circumstances that the new affiliate is in at the present time so we can give them the proper answer. We would not want to encourage something that can hurt the new affiliates desires or dreams. Nor do we want to encourage something that they may not be able to handle as of yet.

When a new affiliate asks me if it is a good thing to press on to the BTL (Bronze Team Leader) position? The first thing I do is praise the affiliate for having the desire to reach out to the Bronze level. Then I ask them one simple question:

How much are you willing to invest to make and keep the Bronze level at this stage of your business activities?

Once this question is asked and they have given you an honest answer you will know how to direct the new affiliate.

If they answer that they want to do this without any investment then they need to know that they can reach that level in their first month or even in the second month. But come the dreaded third month what is going to happen?

Without any money invested there will be no way for them to maintain the Bronze level so they will lose their CSAs given to them in the first month and second month. You just might lose that affiliate.

With the above answer received from your affiliate I would encourage his positive drive and show the affiliate how to do it properly by building up a team and taking time in learning how to gain the most from their home business with SFI and TripleClicks.

If on the other hand the new affiliate can honestly answer your question about maintaining that level without having a team first then by all means encourage the affiliate and show the affiliate how to accomplish their desire.

I am a Bronze team leader and have been for several months now – personally I do not have a strong enough team to keep me at that level without investing finances in my business. Should I be held back because of inactive affiliates? NO – the perks and pay is worth the extra investment.

One word of caution – don’t use language with the word “discourage” in it when talking to new affiliates just “encourage” them to take the route that you as a team leader has suggested for him/her.

Remember “never” quench a small fire – but fan it to greater heights!

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Should I encourage or discourage my PSAs who want to become Team Leaders right away?

You have picked a great subject line for your question. “To be or - Not to be” I believe that every excited affiliate that sees the possibilities with SFI and TripleClicks to have a great income that can turn them financially free wants to get to the top as soon as possible.

As team leaders we must evaluate the circumstances that the new affiliate is in at the present time so we
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Now that is different – a meeting with A2A affiliates. That would be good if you can get enough affiliates to participate.

One of the main things that must be carefully monitored would be in bringing up subjects that can be considered “cross soliciting.” With you being the one to put the meeting together it would be expected that you would also pay attention and be strong enough to stop any kind of “soliciting.”

SFI and TripleClicks are so vast in services and system building methods for a personal home business that any and all subjects would be good to cover.

I would think that your meeting would go so much better if all who were to participate knew in advance what the schedule of events would be and the topics that would be covered.

If I were to plan the meeting this is somewhat of a breakdown of how I would plan it.

1. Meeting time 7:PM
2. Each A2Awill have a chance to introduce yourself to the other members. Say 5 to 10 minutes.
3. Suggested Topics to cover:
a. Sponsoring
b. Training
c. Motivation
d. Sales and Commissions
4. At the end of the meeting for those who want to socialize have small snacks, coffee or whatever.

Keep the meeting as short as possible but still enough time to thoroughly cover desired topics. I would say somewhere around 60 to 90 minutes. There is a tendency to keep a meeting going as long as you can but this will prevent people from ever coming to another one of your meetings.

I know about keeping the time of the meeting short because I held several business meetings on a weekly basis for a couple of years. 60 minutes seemed to be the magic amount of time – 90 minutes if everyone is pumped up.

All that I have shared with you is if your meeting were to be a “business” meeting – There are several types of meetings that you can plan for – such as a

“Fellowship meeting” designed just to make friends and gain solid relationships.
“Recognition meetings” for acknowledging advances in SFI or TripleClicks.
“ECA meeting” – covering the basics and more advanced selling techniques.
“Advertising – covering blogs, websites, free ads and paid ads.

It is good to know that someone is planning such a meeting I wish you and all who participate a very successful meeting.

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Now that is different – a meeting with A2A affiliates. That would be good if you can get enough affiliates to participate.

One of the main things that must be carefully monitored would be in bringing up subjects that can be considered “cross soliciting.” With you being the one to put the meeting together it would be expected that you would also pay attention and be strong enough to stop any kind of “soliciting.”

SFI and TripleClicks are
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Those who participate in the Fast-Track system will win a lapel pin if they reach the Gold Fast-Track level and maintain that for 3 months. The pin is really great looking and it will draw attention.

This pin can be used in building your business in a few different ways:

1. Were it everywhere you go people will look at it and some of them will ask you, “What does that pin stand for?” At this point you can explain SFI and TripleClicks to the one asking or if short on time you can give them a Gift Card in exchange for their contact information.

2. Take an Icon image of the Fast-Track pin and post it in your social web sites with an excited explanation on how you achieved it. Also include your URL (where allowed) so those who are interested can contact you.

3. Use an image of the pin in your solo ads showing that you are a “pace-setter.” This will lend you credit as someone who knows what you are doing and that you can help them accomplish the same thing.

4. Don’t forget to use an image of the pin its self when sending a newsletter to your new teammates to help motivate them into doing the Fast-Track system.

The main idea is to get that prestigious pin you have earned out in front of eyeballs. The more eyeballs that lay sight on that pin the better the chances will be that they become a serious prospect for your SFI and TripleClicks business.

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Those who participate in the Fast-Track system will win a lapel pin if they reach the Gold Fast-Track level and maintain that for 3 months. The pin is really great looking and it will draw attention.

This pin can be used in building your business in a few different ways:

1. Were it everywhere you go people will look at it and some of them will ask you, “What does that pin stand for?” At this point you can explain SFI and TripleClicks to the one asking or if
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Being enrolled in an Internet Marketing company as an affiliate you will soon realize that the only way to be truly successful is to have a strong team of affiliates on your front line (1st level).

This in turn means you will need to be actively sponsoring (enrolling) new people and training them to become leaders that are building up their own strong team of affiliates.

With the marketing plan SFI has it is recommended to have at least 5 affiliates on your front line that are workers who are really trying for success.

Because of all the variables that go along with Internet Marketing you will have to sponsor quite a few affiliates because it is known that only 1% to 3% will be true workers. In knowing this there really is no way to determine just how many affiliates you will have to enroll and sponsor each month.

Your successful business isn’t based on how many you should enroll each month but determined by how many affiliates you can train to accomplish duplication within your team.

If you trained just one affiliate a month to copy what you are doing, within a year you would be making a substantial income.

Enrolling the “numbers” will not fill your wallet with success.

Sponsoring and mentoring Team Leaders within you group fills Everybody’s wallets including yours!

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Being enrolled in an Internet Marketing company as an affiliate you will soon realize that the only way to be truly successful is to have a strong team of affiliates on your front line (1st level).

This in turn means you will need to be actively sponsoring (enrolling) new people and training them to become leaders that are building up their own strong team of affiliates.

With the marketing plan SFI has it is recommended to have at least 5 affiliates on your
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

Using Pricebenders is a good way to build your business by acquiring CSAs (Co-Sponsored Affiliates) and PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates) at a low cost. The PSAs you win can be placed through your Co-op manager to send them to your working PSAs.

By using Pricebenders you will also gain AVP (Action VersaPoints) which are needed for qualifying for the different levels of Team Leaders in the SFI marketing plan. Action Points are sometimes hard to acquire so bidding in the auctions is an alternative way of easily gathering the needed points (one AVP per bid).

Also when playing the auctions you gain 5 or 10 MRPs (Member Reward Points) with each bid. You can purchase products or do like a lot of affiliates do and that is to purchase one TCredit to gain 102 SVP (Sales VersaPoints) also used in qualifying for team levels.

Also in playing the auctions you can win some fantastic prizes that when you share your winnings other people may want to go to the auctions also and you gain PRMs (Personally Referred Members). When they buy TCredits you earn commissions.

Not to mention that the items you win in the auctions at super low prices can be resold at discounted retail prices, which brings you greater commissions.

The above mentioned benefits are the main reasons that I promote the Pricebenders auctions to my team members. As they participate in the auctions they are gaining VP and other rewards in which I also gain through VP matching and commissions on purchased TCredits.

Remember every avenue in which we can build our teams or earn commissions is worth promoting to your teammates and teaching them to do the same creates the power of duplication which increases your income exponentially (compounded multiplying).

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Using Pricebenders is a good way to build your business by acquiring CSAs (Co-Sponsored Affiliates) and PSAs (Personally Sponsored Affiliates) at a low cost. The PSAs you win can be placed through your Co-op manager to send them to your working PSAs.

By using Pricebenders you will also gain AVP (Action VersaPoints) which are needed for qualifying for the different levels of Team Leaders in the SFI marketing plan. Action Points are sometimes hard to acquire so bidding in the
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

The only way that I know of for targeting a specific group for advertising is to go through paid advertising.

Most of the paid advertising that I am familiar with has it set up for you to pick several different demographics, the more specific you are about your target the more it may cost.

When using paid advertising start out with a very small investment when using a paid site for the first time. If results have a good ROI (Return On Investment) then you can increase your advertising budget with them.

With that being said you need to pay attention to conversions that turn out workers with your business. Paying for a site that gives you a lot of sign-ups but no one is working the business then the site is no good.

I know a lot of people advertising get excited to see a bunch of clicks on their ads but believe me “clicks” will not pay your bills. Neither will sign ups that do nothing.

If I were you I would first invest in some training on how to use paid advertising sites, without the proper training it would be easy to lose your life’s earnings with just one ad.

If you can find “free” sites that allow you to select the demographics that you desire I would say to go ahead full steam. Still track you results so you will know if you are wasting your time or not. Remember your time is worth money and it cannot be redeemed.

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The only way that I know of for targeting a specific group for advertising is to go through paid advertising.

Most of the paid advertising that I am familiar with has it set up for you to pick several different demographics, the more specific you are about your target the more it may cost.

When using paid advertising start out with a very small investment when using a paid site for the first time. If results have a good ROI (Return On Investment) then
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

I can understand where you are coming from with your question I have also thought of how to do this. I have only thought of it – In other words I have never used criticism in any form, constructive or not.

It is so much better to offer suggestions after asking the affiliate if he/she wants to hear any suggestions.

People do not take to criticism unless they are your family or super personal friends. And in business the fastest way to get rid of your clients is to gently criticize what they are doing.

If an affiliate asks me a specific question I will answer it by laying out the truth of the matter whether it is easy to swallow or not. The protection here is that the affiliate has asked me to critique their work. Even with this I will keep my answer in a suggesting format.

Your emails to your down-line should only be filled with exciting things going on within your team, SFI and TripleClicks.

You can cover the “how too’s in sales, sponsoring, purchasing and communications with their teams.

Do not answer personal questions from your affiliates within a newsletter that goes out to your entire team.

Always remember that you are building a team that consist of relationships and not a team in which you command. Your team must feel like they can trust you and that you are there to help them not “grading” the actions of what they are doing.

Be a great example to your team which you can do through your actions and your newsletters. They will see the advancements that you are accomplishing by the badges on your affiliate center and leadership page.

Your down-line can and will critique their own personal activities just by witnessing what you are accomplishing.

Remember always let your down-line affiliates instigate the questions before giving any advice.

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I can understand where you are coming from with your question I have also thought of how to do this. I have only thought of it – In other words I have never used criticism in any form, constructive or not.

It is so much better to offer suggestions after asking the affiliate if he/she wants to hear any suggestions.

People do not take to criticism unless they are your family or super personal friends. And in business the fastest way to get rid of your
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Affiliate since: 05/10/2012, Power Rank: 99999999

SFI has set in order the things that a new affiliate should be doing during the first few days that have enrolled and for the next 30 days as well.

So it is important to guide your new affiliates to the three buttons just under their photo in their Affiliate Center.

1. Start – watch the 6 minute video (Ready Set Go) which instructs affiliates on how to get started in SFI
2. Basics – will show 4 easy steps for building and the link for the 3 basic actions for success.
3. Launchpad – A series of articles (30 of them) each designed to cover specific areas of training that is needed to understand how SFI and TripleClicks work.

Why do I suggest this over possibly other important matters? Good question, I’m glad you asked.

Take a few minutes to go to the forum and read the questions that new affiliates are posting. What you will find is that most of their questions are answered within the three buttons described above.

We need to point out the importance of these three things within our welcome letters to our new affiliates. We should also explain to them where to find the “translate” button so they can read the instructions in their own language.

One other thing you can be informing your new affiliates that is very important to do is to contact you if they do not understand something. Let them know you are willing to help them when they need assistance and give them a couple different ways to contact you.

One last important bit of information to share with your new affiliates can be found under the video Ready Set Go:

“The most important thing to do is log in at the Affiliate Center every day and review the tabs on your homepage. Review the tabs daily, apply what you learn and you will quickly master SFI. At the same time, you'll be accumulating valuable rank- and income-boosting VersaPoints!”

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SFI has set in order the things that a new affiliate should be doing during the first few days that have enrolled and for the next 30 days as well.

So it is important to guide your new affiliates to the three buttons just under their photo in their Affiliate Center.

1. Start – watch the 6 minute video (Ready Set Go) which instructs affiliates on how to get started in SFI
2. Basics – will show 4 easy steps for building and the link for the 3 basic
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